Best practices for developing on Android TV
summary
Platform usage grows ~2x year‑over‑year with thousands of TV apps; the session lists concrete tools and outcomes: hardware standardization via Reference + to reduce device variability, playback and DRM handled with ExoPlayer (dash/HLS, Widevine/PlayReady, IMA ads, AV1/HDR coming), home-screen promotion through channels and play next (use content provider or AndroidX helper, last‑engagement timestamps), Assistant watch actions + live‑TV EPG integration, and Play billing updates (subscribe+install, PIN) — plus a multi‑live demo using four simultaneous players.
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- 0:00Start
- 7:57simplify and reduce the variability in hardware
- 10:33curate and highlight high quality content on the home screen
- 11:09launching a complete refresh of the play store
- 12:08rolling out an updated user experience
- 18:49put that banner in the xhdpi folder
- 21:08add all the metadata you need
- 36:46start from the beginning of any content
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